Te348 was the only class that fit my lit requirement to graduate. I walked in May and needed to take a couple classes this summer to finish up. I was very apprehensive about taking this class because I knew it would nothing like I’d ever done before. I felt somewhat confident since it’s called “children’s literature”, how hard could it be? The first couple books were picture books this was going to be a breeze.
However now as the session comes to an end I’ve discovered just how wrong I was. I definitely fell behind at times and had a few inconvenient personal issues come up, but I feel good about my experience. I really liked some of the books we read, and I heard about a few I might be interested in. it has been interesting being on the other side of the desk, so to speak, because while I have interacted with teachers my entire life I never really knew what their training was like. Before this class I imagined teaching degrees as fairly simple and easy to acquire. After all teachers got in to college and will take classes to prepare them for teaching grade school? It made no sense to me that it could be difficult.
Listening to my classmates discuss problems that could arise based on the skin color of the girl in a book or what the character’s family life is like never really crossed my mind. I suppose a lot of what I have to go off of in this class is my personal experience with teachers, and I feel like that is a lot of what college is preparing teacher for. Sharing these experiences and learning from them so they can be prepared when they finally do get a classroom of their own.
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